Macbeth Act III - Weebly
Transcript of Macbeth Act III - Weebly
• Banquo’s contemplations
• witches’ prophecy
• Macbeth’s contemplations
• Banquo’s death
• the futility of sin: all he’s done is for Banquo’s descendents
“Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,
And put a barren scepter in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding. If’t be so,
For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind,
For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d,
Put rancors in the vessel of my peace
Only for thee, and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings—the seed of Banquo kings!”
• Banquo’s contemplations
• witches prophecy
• Macbeth’s contemplations
• manipulation of Banquo’s murderers
• marriage relationship
• no longer protecting each other out of affection, but as fellow partners in crime
• no longer share their feelings or actions with each other
• Lady Macbeth
• unfulfilled
• distressed
• Macbeth
• brooding
• invokes evil to help him in his purpose
“Come, seeing Night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful
day, And with thy bloody and invisible
hand, Cancel and tear to pieces that
great bond Which keeps me pale!”